Comments on: Before You Start Podcasting, Read This

By: vidya

vidya — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:59:28 +0000

of course podcasting is rocking up….but i do believe that always things that are perceived through sight capture our memory more than that through sound waves….its just an opinion anyways

By: NMax

NMax — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:01:21 +0000

i think that podcasting can be both negative and positive. there are postive factors such as you being in control, but there are also negative factors such as you can get amateurs doing what they want, which can ruin the experience.

By: Hayo

Hayo — Thu, 05 May 2005 07:40:25 +0000

Ansel, I agree on both points.

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Ansel’s Brain » Blog Archive » Podcasting discussion — Thu, 05 May 2005 07:37:07 +0000

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By: Ansel

Ansel — Thu, 05 May 2005 07:34:00 +0000

It’s the same reason there’s a word for “blogging”… you could have posted whatever you wanted on the web long before anyone coined the word “blog” - blogs just removed (most of) the pain from the process. The same is true of podcasting, and I think that makes it equally word-worthy. (It also sounds equally silly, but that’s another topic for another day…)

By: Hayo

Hayo — Thu, 05 May 2005 07:15:37 +0000

I agree there are good applications for ‘podcasting’, and if done right, it can make for beautiful stuff. What i want to know is why there had to be a new fancy name for a medium that predates the web by decades. All podcasting really is, is putting a radioshow in mp3format on the web (that’s right, not even live).

By: Ansel

Ansel — Thu, 05 May 2005 06:16:18 +0000

I find the best podcasts are actually quite similar to radio shows: interviews, panel discussions, etc. - content that is more interactive make more sense to present in audio. The worst podcasts are those where some guy is just reading text off a screen. The obvious question: why not keep it on the screen in the first place?

One cool application (at least for law geeks like me) is the podcasting of court hearings - a lot can be lost when these are flattened into plain text.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 04 May 2005 23:24:17 +0000

I’m happy to see the floodgates open to be honest. It doesn’t concern me if thousands of people want to try their hand at podcasting. Just like with blogging, the pool of content will be grow constantly and allow us to communicate in a more decentralized way.

What I’d rather not see is podcasting being used for content that would be better suited as simple text on a page. Content in audio form is less accessible and certainly less searchable.

By: Hayo

Hayo — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:36:32 +0000

I work at a local radio station and can confirm there are a lot of people on the airwaves that are completely talentless, and wouldnt recognise good radio when it slapped a trout across their face. Thankfully, this really bad group only got their chance in local radio. I fear podcasting, like weblog software, is opening the floodgates of truly horrible products that noone actually wants. And that’s not even considering the usability/accessibility drawbacks.

But that’s just the cynic in me talking